Creative Options in Southampton
A message from Creative Options:
‘Creative Options’ was set up by Frances Heather in October 2012 to meet the needs of people with mental health issues living in the community.
A drop-in facility is being run at the Ropewalk in Derby Road on Wednesdays from 11 - 2 p.m. We provide tea and chat, I.T. sessions, crafts, games etc., and a facility for people to work on their own projects and develop their own interests. We run a monthly ‘cook n’ eat club, a ‘make n’ mend club where we do all aspects of sewing, knitting and crochet with tutors, plus new crafts, repairs, recycling materials and lessons on D.I.Y. We are also starting a monthly self-help group.
We have bi-monthly themed days and have subjects such as health awareness, with pampering etc, and music sessions. We are particularly keen to foster people’s own ideas and vision. We are hoping shortly to start ‘with a song in mind’, a singing group for mental health, headed up by one of our service users who is a pianist and former music teacher. We also run ‘tasty options bakin company’ providing freshly home-baked cakes and run two workshop sessions each week. A baking group meets at Challis Court Community Rooms on Thursdays at 1.30 p.m. We hope to provide catering for corporate events in the future and run our own afternoon tea service.
Our longer term vision is to have our own premises and run a community cafe run for and by service users and serving the whole community. We particularly need people with skills and interests to come and volunteer and share; especially those with previous experience in the health or social field. We also welcome service users as volunteers. If interested in getting involved please contact Frances on 07850198069 frances.anne@btinternet.com
COMMUNITY LITTER PICK Thornhill Tidy Titans Group invite you to join them to clear litter from the Hannay Rise area between 11am-1pm on Saturday 25th August. Meet 10.45am outside Costa Coffee, Antelope Park, Bursledon Road, contact sdavies-hart@hotmail.co.uk for more info.
Ropewalk’s Summer Buzz on Saturday 18th August, 12-3pm. Family activity fun day of bee-themed events including face painting, crafts out of scrap, bee hotel making and free wildflower seeds and information stalls. This event is to highlight the importance of our bees since they are in serious decline. http://bit.ly/NIJe4W
Loads of free unusual events with Tudor Revels inspired by the wealth of original documents in Southampton’s archives, they want to shed light on a turbulent but largely unknown part of Southampton’s history.
Sounds intriguing.
http://www.tudorrevels.co.uk/events.php
Last week a double fronted empty shop in the south coast resort of Eastbourne was given a major makeover.
The project was the first by the town’s new ‘Spruce Up Squad‘, a group of volunteers who were concerned about rising numbers of empty shops and decided to take matters into their own hands.
http://eastbournecan.com/first-shop-done/
Time Banking is an exciting way for local people to come together and help each other and themselves and a new Time Bank will be opening in Freemantle! 11th August, 11 – 2pm at Freemantle Community Centre, Randolph Street SO15 3HE http://bit.ly/MrSJpj or email Freemantletimebank@gmail.com
League of Friends of the Royal South Hants Hospital - supporting the hospital through volunteering by raising funds to provide equipment and services for staff, patients and visitors www.lofrsh.org
Are you a tenant in Southampton? This could be for you…
This morning is the editorial board for Tenants’ Link. Did you know that you can influence which stories go into the Tenants’ Link or even write your own. Contact us if you’d like to get involved tenant.participation@southampton.gov.uk or phone 023 8083 2931.
Sounds like an interesting walk… join in!
Another exciting event… A curry is offered before hand too!
This looks like it could be fun…
